PW81 Julie Girl, Mikey Taylor-Firth. Single handed Cornish monk tangle net fishery. Pisces-RFR 

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Yes haha, he's my dad, been wanting to be a fisherman since he was a kid, he loves his job

I’m prob 10 years older now, hurts more 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for the comments ... at least when Mikey gets home he knows that the money doesn't need to be shared out!

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Thomas Ali how can you salute him when he’s killing undersized crabs just because he couldn’t be bothered untangling them properly and returning them back to the ocean alive. He’s no fisherman, he’s just a rapist of our waters.

Yes, Mikey is pretty remarkable, thanks for the comment, I'll let him know Leigh

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time and if they are full of water or meat

Thanks Stay Lit - I think the small boats have a niche, but lets hope policy for the bigger boats gets sorted, as there is a role for them too for sure - I had an interview that went into Fishing News a couple of months back about balanced harvesting - to think about taking constant proportion of of fish out, per different size classes regardless of species - or at least as regardless as possible - as part of a possible way of simplifying the regs

Gee, can't imagine how that happened.

Thanks nanba - Yes, I think seeing what is involved in fishing certainly makes you pause for thought - Its better to be confronted with it rather than just see it in a packet and not think about it, and then people can make their own decision whether they are ok with it - I look at it as how much better or worse it is to the other ways that fish are going to die eventually, none of which is particularly good, and what the crabs do to the things they eat ... Breaking the crabs out will usually depend on how much time the fishermen have got, how tangled the crabs are in the net, how edible they are (if they have just moulted the flesh will be very watery). I don't think they would do it if the crabs were easy to get out, and as their level of fishing in that bay has been pretty constant since the 70s, the crabs will likely sustain the level.

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Michael Hall in our nets with such a large mesh size we hardly ever see any undersized catch. I try to pick out as much whole as I can but if they come up and are damaged by the net or hauler they will not survive. A snapped leg can be treated by making it ‘shed’ it but if the damage is worse then they will die in storage and kill the crabs around them

A reasonable question.The short answer is that the bits being discarded are not a valuable commodity. The longer answer starts by saying that unless the fisher is mad, it is a safe bet that if there is a willing and legal buyer then they will retain the catch. So there will be a reason why they don't retain all of the crabs caught. The most likely reasons are that, by 2012, for various reasons, there were a lot more boats targeting crab, and local buyers were limiting *how much* they would buy, and *what* they would buy. Even when the market is not over-supplied buyers don't want to buy from boats that have a reputation for including light-weight crabs that have recently moulted and yet to grow into the larger shell. The market can have strong preferences either hen or cock crabs, and that also affects what buyers will buy and how much. Then there will be diseased crabs which are unmarketable and which are killed. The fisher will also be making an assessment of how tangled the crab is, and how likely/how long it will take to disentangle it - it is more difficult to extract more recently moulted crab crabs intact. They will also make an assessment of how much time they have, and how many crabs have been caught - less care is taken with a big catch than a few individuals. Unlike other fisheries, netters are generally legally allowed to retain a certain weight of detached crab claws, because of the difficulties of extracting whole crab. For some parts of the UK it is 70kg retained on the boat, in Cornwall from 2011 it was 30kg caught within 6 miles of the coast. In addition to these rational reasons, some netters, who are principally targeting finfish, and who see a lot of high value fish ruined by crab for market, or entirely consumed, don't feel very sentimental about them. However, as of 2014 , in 2016 the most recent year for which Cefas (the scientific body in England doing the stock assessments) has published an assessment, brown crab were believed by them to be at or close to the stock size producing the maximum sustainable yield. One might take that with a pinch of salt, but brown crab wasn't believed to be in danger of collapse. The major issue was and is over-supply of the market, to which the inshore netters response is likely that they have been there since the 1970s; that their numbers and fishing effort has declined in the last decade; and that if there are any issues with the crab fisheries, their impact is small compared to new boats in the area specifically targeting crab, and without effort limits.

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+William Gordge Fair comment. The short answer is that, if it were me, is that - on the ethics side - I would kill them before returning them if they had no claws left. However, in terms of sustainability of the crab population, catch levels are monitored If you are concerned you should contact Cornish IFCA, www.cornwall-ifca.gov.uk and forward them the link to the video. They have the legal responsibility for ensuring sustainable fisheries in the area.

Crab bleeds to death , unless it voluntarily " drops " its claws .

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Thanks Vivian. On the crab - See answer to Gerald Swain and to William Gordge. Regarding the fish, this particular metier - large mesh monk tangle gear - is left to soak usually for 48 hrs, sometimes 72. Monk is a robust fish and the flesh does not deteriorate and affect marketability in this period. But for something like cod, haddock, etc, if it is caught very early after deployment, it will deteriorate and will be unmarketable. So that's why some fish are retained and others immediately discarded - it depends how long they have been in the net. The catch of fish other than monk is rather limited with these large mesh nets. Friends probably wouldn't appreciate a recently moulted or diseased crab, or a moldering fish anymore than buyers.

Yes he is fast!

There are a lot of reasons Jonny906 why crabs may be broken out of the net rather than extracted. Generally the fisher won't be throwing away anything for which there is a market, so it is not wasteful in that sense - if it is diseased, if it has died or dying (=slow moving) in the net the merchants won't take it; if it has just moulted the flesh will be watery and unmarketable; also we as consumers mostly want the white meat in the claws rather than the dark 'liver' that is in the shell, so there is a limit to how many bodies rather than claws the merchants will take - there are often regulations limiting the number of claws (rather than whole crabs) retained in some areas to try and nudge this in the direction of more whole crab bought. More broadly the fisherman is making an assessment of how tangled the crab is in the net, and so the practicality of extracting it whole. If they have just moulted it more difficult to get the crab out without breaking limbs accidentally anyway (and is unmarketable see above). And it will depend on how many crabs are caught - fishers generally spend less time extracting if they are overwhelmed. And yes there is some resentment among the fishers when the crabs are getting first to damage fish otherwise worth (for monk) around £8 - $12 per kilo - they might take time to extract them carefully in the first year or so, but the empathy wears off after a while - doesn't excuse it but does help explain it! The amount of time spent extracting varies from fisher to fisher - Chris Bean on Lady Hamilton (see other videos) is at the top end, but also very skilled at rapid extraction. Fishers likely believe that it is going to get recycled pretty quickly into other crabs - the fishing intensity with nets has been pretty constant/ declining slightly in this area over the last decade and more, and crab numbers and landing have held up.

Jonny906 More than likely the crab was undersized and he didn’t want to waste his time untangling it out of the net. The authorities should see that and take away his fishing license or give him a huge fine. He’s no fisherman in my eyes.

@Deane Minister evidently, you are no too bright. He never checked to see the status of the crab, plus the first crab he took was loaded with eggs. Is that how they fish in Europe? Raping the ocean. BY the way, you better get some sanitary napkins because your mangina is leaking. The guy may be fishing but he really isn’t a concerned fisherman. Thank God Florida banned all net fishing. It should be done throughout the world.

Michael Irey a tier of nets last 6 months, 20000 meshes long, 11 meshes deep, £300 for the netting and monk average £20 so a mesh here and there on the big ones if it saves time is no probs

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Hi skittification - sorry not to have noticed your reply, that had been automatically been put into the pending review box by RU-vid - I assume because of the profanity. But see responses made to others responding to similar points.

Absolutely correct..... I've heard of spider crabs being treated same but I hear that is not necessary to rip the claws off because the body meat is nice to eat.........When we were diving the 'others' only would eat the white crab meat so I had a hell of a time gorging on the firm tasty brown meat ..... a bit of vinegar on it & away I went....... I could not believe my eyes when I saw what he did - both claws off & then back into the briny for a slow death..... disgraceful no less.

I’ve never known that sort of problem to happen but many Years ago was bitten by a spider and since then I’ve been allergic to the algal blooms every may!!!

Spiny lobsters and scorpion fish are way worse. Dogfish suck too.

He is fisherman

why worry that much, it's food for crabs and other species, they will have a easy meal.